'PERFECT SCORE' FAILS JUST ABOUT EVERY TEST.(U)(Review)

From: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) | Date: January 30, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: Evan Henerson Staff Writer

SHARPEN UP those No. 2 pencils, boys and girls. It's time for a single- question, multiple-choice quiz.

Ready? Cool. Select the phrase that best applies to the ``Hey, gang, let's steal the SAT and learn a valuable lesson'' teen heist movie, ``The Perfect Score'':

A) It's the movie sensitive teen-meister John Hughes would have made had he been strapped to a bench, a knife at his throat, with a pulsating garage band score on continuous loop placed two inches from his eardrum.

B) It's the endeavor that will drive ``Pearl ...

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